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Part of it, I think, was trying to read The Flame Alphabet, which had a premise I could really identify with: the sound of children's voices becomes toxic for adults. But the book itself was so grey and heavy and nauseating and confusing, I didn't even get halfway through it. (Lionel Shriver's review is pretty much exactly the way I felt about it.)
Furthermore, in the book there are many conversations with the contemptuous, argumentative early-teens daughter of the household, and let's just say I can FULLY identify with that but don't feel like seeking out more exposure to it. I'm leaning heavily these days on Empty Nest Feather's post Desk Cleaning, which is only partly about desk-cleaning and has given me a new private nickname for Rob ("Mr. Eye-Rolling Contempt"). I'm also leaning on her post The Last of the Teens, which gives me some hope that I won't be this miserable for the next fifteen years.
This morning William was apparently doing the verbal equivalent of "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you," and Rob suddenly EXPLODED with rage. The reaction was understandable but not allowed, and I told him so, and told him he needed to take a break from his computer turn. Then, because I sympathized with his position, I lectured William at length within earshot of Rob, discussing pointedly how much I sympathized with Rob.
Rob sulked ostentatiously for twenty minutes or so. As I helped get another child ready for school, he asked why William was allowed to "just get away with it." I explained what should already have been clear, which is that William ALSO got punished: William's punishment was the lecture, while Rob's was a break from the computer---and also that although William's behavior was indeed obnoxious, it wasn't against the rules in the same way "screaming out in rage" was. I reiterated my empathy, and also reiterated that he could not react that way even if it felt justified. He claimed justification = appropriate. I remained calm (and to my tremendous credit, did NOT later use this as an opportunity to ask if in that case it was appropriate for me to smack him in the mouth), and said that part of my job was to civilize him: that he could not yell out like that in school or in his future workplace, and so he needed to learn not to do it.
He claimed that at school it would never happen, because teachers "have the time" to make sure it doesn't; they don't have to "choose their battles," they can deal with ALL of them. What a nice little dig, putting in references to recent calm responses I've made to his snotty interrogations, and using verbal air-quotes. That's when I became no longer calm. I had been deliberately and repeatedly sympathetic/empathetic; I had doled out a very light and understanding punishment; I had calmly explained the ideas behind the rules. And now Mr. IRRITATING McASININE was saying that it was MY FAULT that he had yelled. And this AFTER he has REPEATEDLY told me that the teachers are NOT consistent and DO choose their battles and DON'T always enforce the rules for everyone, with me offering REPEATED sympathy, discussion, and soothing explanations that defended the teachers without failing to legitimize his precious adolescent FEELINGS!
It is very, very unpleasant, after deliberately avoiding choosing a spouse who would force me to live my life with this kind of crap, to end up living with it anyway.
39 comments:
- Melissa Haworth said...
I'm dealing with a lot of six-year-old attitude/moodiness over here and this post is NOT making me feel very optimistic :(
Hope things are better soon and you at least get the 'n' back in wan.
- Feb 8, 2012, 9:44:00 AM
- Megan said...
Swistle, I KNOW. I have a 14 year old step-son and it is just miserable right now. I hope they move through this horrible phase quickly. Gosh, I hope it is a phase.
- Feb 8, 2012, 9:49:00 AM
I know it's not really the point but, "Mr. IRRITATING McASININE" made me laugh out loud, literally! At least you've still got a sense of humor about it all! :)
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:01:00 AM
- Christy said...
Oh no. It makes me think of how one is supposed to talk their baby/toddler through things to help them express themselves and to show empathy. Like, "I know you're teething and it hurts and you're tired and..."
I kind of want to wait 10 years and tell my son, "I know you can't express yourself since your brain chemistry has gone wonky and you've literally gone a little CRAZY, but..."
I can imagine how ticked off that would have made me at the same age.
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:03:00 AM
- MomQueenBee said...
This, too, shall pass. Not quickly enough, of course, but it shall pass. And Mr.IRRITATING McASININE will make me laugh forever.
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:08:00 AM
- Saly said...
I...Oh God.
Maybe Rob will be the worst of your moody teens? Maybe it will be smooth sailing from here?
I don't know.
I was a raging bitch from the time I was...oh, 11 until I was probably 15 or so. I fear that I (we all are!!) am just in for it as our kids get up in to tween stage.
My sympathies to you.
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:10:00 AM
- kate said...
"It is very, very unpleasant, after deliberately avoiding choosing a spouse who would force me to live my life with this kind of crap, to end up living with it anyway. "
Not to laugh at your pain, but that is just hilarious. And also makes me dread the future, since my oldest is only four.
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:13:00 AM
I'm down to my last teenager (2 stepsons and 3 daughters) and they have all gone through a phase (in fact, we used "Surly Boy" and "Permanent PMS" for a few years) that was quite varied. One child's phase was brief and one (21 yr old) is STILL in it so I'm guessing it depends on the child which sucks because it's not like you can say...oh thank goodness...only xxx left of this BS.
The physical part of parenting seems to be about over for me but the mental part is alive and well and slowly driving me insane (4 in college, one in high school)
Oh! I didn't mean to be one of those "just you wait" people because that has always ticked me off but seriously? I'm just so DONE with this late teen/young adult stage. They BELIEVE they are adults and yet, no one is supporting themselves... so yeah, not an adult until you are paying your own way.
*pant* *pant* *pant*
Oh. Wow. I needed that vent! Thanks!
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:15:00 AM
- LizScott said...
Ooooooooooof your last sentance socked me in the gut. In um, a good way? Maybe not, but a way nonetheless.
All I have to say in relation to this is that when I became a stepmother I started feeling extremely uncomfortable with a daily reminder of how awful I must have been as a kid, and once I became a stepmother of a TEENAGER, I full on started calling my mom to apologize explicitly
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:20:00 AM
- Mrs. Irritation said...
Holy shit. I can say it honestly never occurred to me that moody teen boys would be an issue. All anyone ever talks about it how moody girls are. Sigh.
Along with everyone else, I do have to admit that Mr. IRRITATING McASININE made me laugh hard. & is now what I'm calling my dog.
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:27:00 AM
- Slim said...
So it's OK to do something because you are being provoked by someone else's irritating behavior?
Beware, all you jaywalkers, loud cellphone users, providers of unsolicited advice . . . .
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:35:00 AM
- MoMMY said...
I am currently living with FOUR, I repeat FOUR, Mr. IRRITATING McASININE. Thank you for naming them. So much easier than trying to remember all their names. They certainly are not the dear sweet boys my husband and I so painstakingly named in utero.
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:54:00 AM
- Stacie said...
...and now you know why I sometimes take my Kindle into the bathroom and not emerge for an hour.
- Feb 8, 2012, 11:14:00 AM
- Josefina said...
HAHAHA. I felt horrible for you as I read this because I could FEEL the rage boiling up, but the end part about avoiding it with the spouse but getting it anyway from the kid? SO funny. Because, MMM HMM.
- Feb 8, 2012, 11:15:00 AM
- Brenna said...
I also have a 12 year-old (a girl, though), and I wished we were neighbors so we could hold each other's hand through this time. I struggle with choosing my battles, because as much as I want to instill respectfulness, I could drive all of us crazy trying to punish every eye-roll and snide remark. Just the other day I was daydreaming outloud, and I told my husband how wonderful it would be if I were hard of hearing, whenever I couldn't take one more snotty remark, I could just turn off my hearing-aid.
- Feb 8, 2012, 11:23:00 AM
- Tess said...
Man, I STAMPEDED to the comments to read more about this.
Our 3 girls are only 6ish, but already Tosc worries about this, specifically your comment about avoiding the behavior in a spouse and having to deal with it in kids.
- Feb 8, 2012, 11:30:00 AM
Oh! I wanted to add because I just remembered--my oldest daughter displays the EXACT characteristics/personality behaviors that partly led to the demise of my marriage and seeing that play out with your own child is particularly troubling and probably something for a therapist to have a hey-day (hayday?) with. Took me a few years to figure out why she and I had issues and then I realized...Oh! Because she is EXACTLY like (even in looks!) her father.....that I, um, divorced. Oooof.
- Feb 8, 2012, 11:51:00 AM
I think my browser ate my comment.
Anyway, I was going to say, that my book club is reading a book called The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine. She makes some comparisons in her book between the male and female brain that makes me think that her other book The Male Brain would be really helpful to anyone parenting a teenage boy.
She deals with the physiological development of the brain and how it relates to gender at different stages of a person's life. It's been really interesting reading it and it's helped me understand my daughter (and my sons) so much more. It's not really a 'self-help' book as much as a 'informative' book, but I found the information to be extremely helpful.
- Feb 8, 2012, 11:52:00 AM
- Swistle said...
Anonymous- ADDED TO LIBRARY LIST. Thank you!
- Feb 8, 2012, 11:54:00 AM
- Misty said...
I literally "OOoooo-ed" at the computer when I read what he said. That was a deliberate attack. Deliberate! Punish him from breathing for the next 40 years!
Brother...has exceptionally similar issues. Unfortunately, he is just like me, so he gets it honestly. Nature + Nurture = Holy shit, why am I such a bitch? Anyway. I am no help. I just punish the little dork when he is mouthy. Heh.
- Feb 8, 2012, 12:07:00 PM
- Elizabeth said...
So I feel like what you're telling me (the woman has been up all night with her 18 month old who won't sleep and whose MIL is arriving on a 6:30 plane and hasn't cleaned the house yet and can't because the 18 month old has kept her since 4 AM AND WON'T SLEEP) is that someday these children are going to be WORSE!? WORSE THAN THEY ALREADY ARE?! Why does anyone have these wretched beasts!
In other news, I think you would like "Ready Player One" based on the time you read and liked that other computery book where the computer takes over the world after the dude dies, etc.
- Feb 8, 2012, 12:17:00 PM
- Val said...
I have no advice, Swistle. Maybe it's a day for one of your presents-to-self? :) 'Hope your day is improving. ♥
- Feb 8, 2012, 12:21:00 PM
- Shalini said...
So my kids were basically doing the same thing today, where one antagonized the other until the other punched him in the chest, and I SO didn't want to punish the puncher. Because the punch was deserved. I ended up punishing them BOTH in the end and then went to furiously scrub a toilet because I don't have any cool vices like alcohol in the morning or punching my brother.
- Feb 8, 2012, 12:30:00 PM
- Swistle said...
Elizabeth- Thanks! Adding to library list!
- Feb 8, 2012, 12:47:00 PM
- Maggie said...
Ah man. My son is 9 and am already getting some lovely glimpses of this kind of behavior that make husband and I want to run away. I know we are doomed to regular behavior like this for awhile when he's a teen and the thought of it makes me despair. Ugggghhhhh.
- Feb 8, 2012, 12:54:00 PM
- Jessica said...
I think I'll re-read this post whenever my husband tells me we can't have more babies and I get sad. (We're not done yet, but I could keep having babies forever and he only wants 1 more)
- Feb 8, 2012, 1:34:00 PM
- Clarabella said...
And THEN you smacked him in the mouth? Holy hell, but that is some snotty attitude. I hope he shakes it off, and SOON.
I am totally stealing that part of our jobs as parents is to civilize them.
- Feb 8, 2012, 3:06:00 PM
- CARRIE said...
I have no advice to give. I did purchase the book Love and Logic Magic --The Teen Years even though my kids are years away from this stage, but I generally like the ideas of this series of books.
However, reading your post made me think that it would be impossible to remain loving and logical towards a teen who is not being loving and is highly illogical. Oh wait, that is a 3-year-old? No, a teen? No, a 3-year-old?
My head hurts.
- Feb 8, 2012, 3:35:00 PM
- Still Playing School said...
Remember that you are raising him, and therefore living with this, so that his future wife won't have to! <3
- Feb 8, 2012, 3:40:00 PM
- Stephanie said...
This is what I have always feared about having children. (One of the things, anyway.) I keep telling my husband the deal is that HE gets them when they hit double digits in age; I can handle babies and toddlers (at least thus far; we're only 2.5 years in) but I have never, ever ever ever dealt well with teenagers. EVAR. Not even fictional ones in my child development studies.
One note of positivity, if I may? That Rob is comfortable enough telling you, essentially, what's riling him up. That sounds weird because what he was saying was irrational and illogical and not in line with reality, BUT the fact that he will say words that express some level of his feelings to you is a sign of solid parenting for many years. Impressive. You will no doubt both make it through this. And have a strong relationship!
Teens. Yikes. Eep. Petrified.
- Feb 8, 2012, 9:09:00 PM
Oh Swistle, this made me laugh because it reminded me so much of my brother at your son's age. My mother NEVER raised a hand to us ever, BUT this one time my brother pushed her to far I think she nearly broke his arm. We ended up laughing about it for years. Just so you know he turned out FINE, he is a very successful district manager making a 6 digit income.
Tell me I did not just post this for the world to see. Hang in there it will pass and chances are you will laugh about it ;)
- Feb 8, 2012, 10:33:00 PM
- Doing My Best said...
Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes *nodding head in complete, discouraged sympathy*.
Many, MANY times, I have thought, "If I had ANY other job and somebody regularly talked to/treated me like this, I would, for the sake of my mental health, FIND A DIFFERENT JOB!"
And I worry, because a certain former occupant of my womb has been like this ever since his entrance into this world, and I can't bear to contemplate what "even worse than he has been" might look like.
In all the reading I've done specific to the development of boys, their need for gross motor physical activity is FREQUENTLY mentioned. Since we don't have any wood to chop, or stables to shovel out, I send certain, testy people outside to ride/scooter/run laps around the block (BRISKLY and without stopping), run back and forth in the backyard, do 100 jumping jacks outside, or wash the outside windows (I only wish we had snow for someone to shovel!). It DOES seem to help, but, even if it didn't, I would STILL make them do those things because then *I* get a break from the constant stream of verbal fiery darts.
- Feb 9, 2012, 12:44:00 AM
- Joanne said...
This scares the bejeezus out of me because I think about it all the time, the fact that I crafted a certain life for myself, tried to make good choices, tried to avoid prison and here I am, daily barely avoiding the freaking klink. Also I like to think that six, four, two and newborn are the hard years and if it gets a lot worse, I just - I wish for deafness, often. Anyways, I'm sorry, how awful to be spoken to like that! I honestly don't understand why this job has to be so crappy.
- Feb 9, 2012, 10:04:00 AM
- Leeann said...
I have a 13 year old son. A 16 year old daughter who is currently not being $hitty and a 10 year old son who is ALWAYS a button pusher round out the group.
I had NO FREAKING IDEA that parenting would get this hard. Comparatively, the early years feel like a fricking cake walk. The exhaustion is UNREAL.
I can relate cause I'm right there with you.
- Feb 9, 2012, 2:49:00 PM
- Pickles and Dimes said...
Mr. IRRITATING McASININE made me laugh out loud.
- Feb 9, 2012, 3:08:00 PM
- Kelsey said...
I feel like we get glimpses of what Harper's teenage years will be like - it is...troublesome.
The spouse comment made me laugh out loud.
- Feb 9, 2012, 10:21:00 PM
- d e v a n said...
If only we could choose the personalities of our children! Oh, how I've wished it a time or two!
- Feb 10, 2012, 9:47:00 AM
Interesting article about this area here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203806504577181351486558984.html
("What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind" by Alison Gopnik)
which includes the comforting words "there is even some evidence that higher IQ is correlated with delayed frontal lobe development".
- Feb 11, 2012, 9:42:00 AM
- MrsDragon said...
It is very, very unpleasant, after deliberately avoiding choosing a spouse who would force me to live my life with this kind of crap, to end up living with it anyway.
I do not have children yet. This is one of my great fears. (It seems kind of overblown to call it a fear. Great worry? One of many things that occasionally keep me up at night?). All I know is that my husband is the only family I was able to choose and I chose well. I'm hoping for heaps of luck when we have kids.
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- If you're in Toronto this week for the Urban Agriculture Summit (or just cause), I'll be signing copies of my books along with other urban ag authors at an event called "Growing the City" at Toronto City Hall. When: Thursday, August 16, 2012. 6:30pm-8. Where: Toronto City Hall Rotunda, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto. I hear there will be free refreshments as well as a tour of the green roof before the event between 6pm and 6:30.
- On Friday, August 17 at 10:30am I will be chairing a session on diversity (or the lack of) in urban agriculture called, "Urban Food Production and Social Inclusion" with speakers Shewat Zeru from AfriCan Food Basket and Malik Yakini, the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.
I believe that tickets are still available to attend this conference. There are tiered rates for students and small businesses and non-profits available as well as skills-based workshops that can be attended individually and without a full conference pass.


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I don't think we're in the Yankee Conference anymore, UMass.
Then again, new coach Charley Molnar already knew this. And so did anybody with a remote working knowledge of what UConn football has and what UMass football wants to become in the coming years. UConn was a 24 ½-point favorite in its 2012 season opener and, in the Minutemen's first-ever FBS game, nobody really expected them to play it any closer.
And they didn't. Final score: UConn 37, UMass 0.
What matters on a Thursday night like this in August is what we learned. Or more precisely what we think we learned from the Huskies' rout.
For if we have learned anything from opening blowouts in the past decade it's that some of what happens is real. And some of it is fool's gold.
Oh, we can strut around and proclaim we know this, or we know that or we know it all. The truth is that until we see it all in action against a legitimate opponent like North Carolina State on Sept. 8 at Rentschler Field we cannot begin to be sure.
Still, this is what my eyes told me.
There is speed on that UConn defense, some serious, scary speed. That's right, the kind of speed and pursuit that could disrupt quality opponents all season long.
With one minute and 49 seconds left in the first half, UMass took over on its own 17-yard line. At that point the Minutemen had run 18 offensive plays for 5 total yards and no first downs. They went three and out more times than the Mets on a good night.
"It was a great performance by the whole defense," middle linebacker Yawin Smallwood said.
Smallwood brought the big wood on this night. The guy was running around like a rabid dog. First pass of the game by Mike Wegzyn, Smallwood got a hand on the ball. On the third possession, he sacked Wegzyn for an eight-yard loss. Through three quarters he had five unassisted tackles. Smallwood was ready for this one.
"I've been ready since summer started," Smallwood said. "Last year [5-7] wasn't an experience we liked."
Sio Moore had five tackles. Trevardo Williams, who had 12 ½ sacks last season, pulled Wegzyn down from behind for another sack in the second half.
Granted, this was on special teams, but the speed Taylor Mack showed in the third quarter to block a Jeff Strait punt that allowed the pride of Berlin — Max DeLorenzo — to recover in the end zone for a 27-0 lead … that was lightning.
"We have fast guys all over the field," Smallwood said. "Trevardo is big, strong and fast. We've got corners and linebackers who can all move. I feel like that's great for the scheme [defensive coordinator Don Brown] brought in for us. We're going to apply a lot of pressure. We're going to make teams game-plan around us. We're not going to game plan around them."
Smallwood made plays last year. He made 94 tackles, in fact. His emergence is no shock. Yet it's also clear he wants much more of himself.
"I feel like this is my defense," Smallwood said. "I'm the middle linebacker. This is my defense. I've got to take control of that. I can't say I'm a sophomore and let these things happen. I've got to go out there and be responsible for everybody and make sure everybody get checks and go hard."
We'll have to see how the first weekend plays out around the country, but 59 yards allowed on 47 plays — 1.3 yards per play — could put UConn atop the nation's defensive list. As it stands, UMass was shut out for the first time in a span of 199 games. It never got farther than its own 38-yard line.
Welcome to the FBS, guys.
"Defensively, we played really, really well," UConn coach Paul Pasqualoni said. "We hit expectations on defense. To be perfectly honest, special teams exceeded my expectations a little bit.
"We came into preseason camp last year, we didn't have a middle linebacker. Yawin's skill set was the best to be that player. He really started to come on last year. He's settling in now. He's confident. He looks instinctive. That's important for that position."
Granted, long season. Granted, weak opponent. But this is what my eyes screamed to me. This UConn defense is a blue streak.
"I don't know if it's going to look that fast next week," Pasqualoni said, laughing. "But we have guys who can run. Sio, Blidi Wreh-Wilson, Trevardo, Yawin. Ty-Meer Brown was a quarterback in high school. Byron Jones has a 43-inch vertical jump. We've got athletes on defense."
There was plenty to like.
Nick Williams was an all-purpose demon. Lots of attention has been directed toward transfer Shakim Phillips, Williams and the return of Mike Smith, but Geremy Davis, a physical receiver, has emerged in practice and Whitmer found him five times for 79 yards.
In his debut, Whitmer showed he still will try to force a ball into traffic. He can't get greedy. Yet despite the two interceptions he did hit 15 of 25 passes for 219 yards. Chad Christen nailed all three of his field goal attempts, the longest of 47 yards.
The offensive line was a game of musical chairs during the first half. There was clearly a lot of experimentation going on. UConn played lots of guys and didn't empty its playbook.
"We've got enough plays to paper this wall," Pasqualoni said laughing.
Everybody knows Lyle McCombs can run. Everybody knows that is UConn's bread and butter. And McCombs buttered the bread for 89 yards on 23 carries. Pasqualoni's one complaint was that he wanted to run the ball better on third down.
Games like this, of course, usually open up on turnovers and as good as UConn looked at times the score was only 10-0 late in the first half. That's when Dwayne Gratz intercepted a Wegzyn pass for a 37-yard touchdown return. UConn never looked back.
Was there too much wildcat for my taste? Yes. Scott McCummings, who did miss a lot of practice time in August, got a lot of work in, carrying the ball seven times for 15 yards. It seemed to disrupt the rhythm of Whitmer's offense. Pasqualoni said that with so much run blitz, the wildcat is an equalizer. My eyes told me not so much wildcat next week.
But then again, this is the opener. There's a lot of real stuff and a lot of fool's gold.
And something tells me the UConn speed and pursuit on defense is very real and potentially devastating.
"I'm not surprised at all," said Smallwood, who wore a bow tie to the post-game media session. "Last year, we were ranked like No. 4 in the nation in the run game. We came out trying to prove something this year, that we're a great defense, a top-five defense in the country."
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FORTUNE -- "I'm not an expert at anything, including my own job," Scott Adams writes in the introduction to How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life. "I draw like an inebriated howler monkey and my writing style falls somewhere between baffling and sophomoric. It's an ongoing mystery to me why I keep getting paid." He also notes upfront that "this is not an advice book. If you've ever taken advice from a cartoonist, chances are it didn't end well."
Breezily ignoring his own disclaimer, Adams goes on to pack the next 229 pages with contrarian career advice, based on the author's mixed bag of experience in work and life. Although he told his mother when he was eight years old that he wanted to be the next Charles Schulz, Adams started his career in 1979 as a teller at a bank in San Francisco, where "my degree in economics made me somewhat overqualified for the job, and yet I still managed to be dreadful at it." Altogether, he spent 16 years in corporate America, many of them in the middle rungs of financial management at Pacific Bell, and got an MBA from the Haas School at Berkeley.
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Sounds pretty conventional, but Adams was a voracious autodidact. "I was a learning machine," he writes. "If I thought something might someday be useful, I tried to grasp at least the basics." Many of the observations in his book come from his delving deep into a seemingly random collection of subjects, from meditation and hypnosis to psychology, computer programming, and electronic game design.
Without letting go of his day job, and while drawing Dilbert strips at night, Adams patented an invention to make texting easier on old-style cell phones (smartphones made it obsolete), launched a line of veggie burritos called Dilberitos that sold in a few national chains before being crushed by the competition, invented some ill-fated computer games, and built several websites that went nowhere.
All of this is described in a chapter called "Some of My Many Failures in Summary Form" along with a few big, bad investments -- including one in a predecessor to YouTube that flopped because Internet speeds were not yet fast enough for online video sharing to catch on. "This was about the time I started to understand that timing is often the biggest component of success," he writes. "And since timing is hard to get right unless you are psychic, it makes sense to try different things until you get the timing right by luck."
Trying lots of different things, while holding on to his day job, led him to come up with a formula: Every skill you acquire doubles your chances of success. Most people, he writes, are "better off being good at two complementary skills than being excellent at one ... When I combined my meager business skills with my bad art skills and my fairly ordinary writing talent, the mixture was powerful."
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Refreshingly for an autobiography by a rich and famous person, How to Fail at Almost Everything skewers the usual clichés about what leads to success. To take just one example, consider passion. Adams says successful people often cite passion as a reason for their rise because "everyone can be passionate about something or other ... Passion feels very democratic. It's the people's talent, available to all. It's also mostly bullshit."
In his view, passion is a byproduct of succeeding at something, not a prerequisite to it. Looking back over the dozens of business ventures he started, or tried to start, he writes that he was passionate about each one until it fizzled. "The ones that didn't work out -- and that would be most of them -- slowly drained my passion as they failed," he writes. Drawing a comic strip "started out as just one of many get-rich schemes I was willing to try. When it started to look as if it might be a success, my passion for cartooning increased" -- a lucky break for Dilbert fans.
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My wife and I had Blue Sky finish our basement and upstairs remodel. We knew it was going to be a nightmare project from the start for me, my wife and four kids. It started back in September of 2013 meeting with the owner Dave Medvetz and his staff in our home in Wakefield. After many meetings with all parties we choose Dave and Blue Sky quite simply because they soared above every other company and individual we interviewed. We felt as if the project would interfere with our lives for five or so months seeing how we were told that would be the length of the project. The team at Blue Sky had both the basement and the upstairs completed and C0 issued the first week February. We are now settled in to the new spaces and we have just now had time to sit down and commend Blue Sky Services on such a incredible job of quality and craftsmanship. The family and I are most appreciative of Dave and his staff for always being honest and hard working and most of all respectful of my home and family. This was a major undertaking and even though I may of had some doubts about going over budget by many thousands of dollars we now know the reason for having a contingency 15 to 20 percent more budgeted available for the "unknowns" which we now know for the next project. Based on the turnout of our projects we had called Dave and referred our child's school principle who is now having her house majorly renovated by Blue Sky and their Team. My recommendation for everyone is to interview the person and not the price... Hats off to Blue Sky The Choma family
Despite all I have heard, I am 110% behind the guys at Blue Sky Services. They finished my kitchen from start to finish. They did a great job and we VERY much enjoyed working with their team. We barely had to lift a finger. They took care of everything. From the drawings and 3d pictures to the final paint. They followed through and we got exactly what we payed for. Sure they ran a little long but we anticipated that...common sense told us that anything could happen (and a lot of them did!). Through out the entire process I had a high level of confidence in the teams. We have told at least four of our friends and neighbors and they are already starting to work wthe their designers. Contrary to what I have read, I never felt like a number. I always felt like they had my best interests at heart. The customer service was superior. Many thanks to Blue Sky. God Bless and good wishes!
The team at Blue Sky Services were awesome! We could not be happier with the remodel. They are by far the BEST remodeling company I have used. They made the process simple and took good care of our home. The final work is better than we could have imagined. They followed through and made it happen. They have a customer for life! Thanks a million.
Pro . Very good quality
Pro . Good timing
Con . Slow communication
We are happy with the work they did. Did new office, did new bonus room.
They did a good job on the work. Our kitchen is upgraded substantially. Our family uses a kitchen a lot and we are looking forward to using it. We are happy that they were able to finish soon than planned. Good price point and good work.
This is going to be a long review. I feel that I should be thorough and give a accurate accounting of how Blue Sky Services did our addition. Living through 4+ months of construction we have to
We called them in April to receive an estimate for a couple of new rooms off the back of our home. An estimator called us right away and we scheduled to meeting him about 10 days later. Honestly we would have like to have them come sooner but according to him the schedules did not permit. When he finally came out the meeting was different than the other meetings we had from others. He spent WAY too much time "selling" their services. We were 100% on board with their process and were fairly confident in them based on seeing them around for years. Basically for us it boiled down to price and a gut feeling. Blue Skies passed our gut test.
Here is something to consider. We had to pay a decent sum upfront to receive a detailed estimate. This was a bit of a sticking point for us. Their reasoning made sense. Needing to have plans to do our addition. As a consumer we had to ask ourselves if it made sense to spend money when there is a good possibility that the price would make our project cost prohibitive. We had gathered ballparks that seemed extremely low and some that were in the stratosphere.The sporadic ballparks spurred our commitment for a design build estimate.
The designers did a fantastic job. No complaints. The lead designer followed through on all facets. Met us at odd hours. Really she is great to work with. We also met one of the owners during the process and he really helped wit the nuts and bolts and actually came up with some nice ideas. All in all they have the design part down pat.
NOW the construction. Right from the beginning we felt as though the crews were playing catch up. A week behind then two weeks behind, our confidence waivered seriously. We talked to our p.m. every day and were assured things would pick up. Eventually Jason got the project back on track and "righted the ship". Thank the stars Dimitry and his crew showed up about 2/3 of the way. They were at work early and stayed late just about every day. They were very courteous and CLEAN. The did a great job one the trim and finishing work.
A good experience. They exceeded our expectations with some bumps along the way. Our new rooms look great and we are happy.
I had Blue Sky Services finish my basement. They did a nice job.
They finished the job on time and on budget. The work is very good.
We are very pleased and will be telling our friends.
We are impressed by Blue Sky. Just finished our kitchen in the nick of time for Thanksgiving!
My wife found them from our neighbors who had work done by them. So we decided to have them do an estimate for us. The sales associate that came out was Jeremy and he was great. Hew was definitely on the ball. He gave us a ballpark for our kitchen which was higher than the other estimates we got from another kitchen company but waaaaaay lower than a local big box store. Which was surprising by the way.
Our experience was much like the previous posts I have read. Even though we heard good things, we were still nervous about our choice: a large investment. we were put at ease by the design staff. Eric 1, Eric 2 and Holly are as good as advertised. Cabinets look great. Tile is great. A great design and quality materials.
There is not much to say about the work other than they were respectful and did a great job with details.
We did have a minor problem that was eventually solved. I got home from work and realized that the sink that was already installed was not even close to the one that my wife picked out. I brought this to the superintendents attention. Come to find out it was a mistake on the granite fabricator. We did receive a call form the owner to let us know that it would be taken care of - and they did but it took a week to get the sink so that was disappointing mostly because we were sooooo close top being done!
Another concern was the process. Having never gone through a renovation, I have nothing to compare it to. Numerous times it seemed like things were left unfinished or done out of order. We brought all of the items to our PM and he was always saying "we are not finished" or we are "waiting for inspections". Turns out he was right they did what they call their punched list to clean up blemishes. In the future we will have a better sense of what to expect. Just be prepared for things to go from rough and ugly to clean and finished pretty much overnight.
We were definitely treated well and the follow through was great. We could not be happier with the kitchen. Thanksgiving is going to be much easier this year. Double Oven ^ definitely recommended:)
Did a nice job on our kitchen and living room. Quality is good. Price is average.
We have gotten compliments from our friends. They had some great ideas for designs. Mostly we were impressed with the overall experience.
Definitely worth getting an estimate from them if you are in the market for a remodel.
Nice job guys.
I got 3 estimates from contractors to do my bathroom renovation.I awarded the job to Blue Sky Services.They were not the least expensive option but I felt that they offered a better package than the other 2 companiesThe 2 companies that I did not choose were good options but did not have the design capabilities and a one stop shop I need.
I must say that my experience with the process of getting contractors to quote my job was exhausting. Much like some other posts I have read,it seemed like a few contractors did not need my business!
From the getgo the Blue Sky Services staff was pleasant.They sent out their estimator who was nice enough.He promptly scheduled a designer to meet with me to design a bathroom...OVERWHELMING! Honestly my head was spinning with the options for bathrooms these days.The only advice I can give is to be prepared to make a LOT of decisions.
The construction took a lot longer than I expected.The estimator said it would be 4 to 6 weeks and I should have known it would be the upper end of the estimate.They have a great electrician.The tile installers were the best,they are true artisans and they are as good as advertised.But in the end I certainly was ready for them to leave my home.
All in all it was a great experience as a consumer.The work quality is superb.Nice job.
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Although I might find a few useful things to say to such readers, let me concede that the bar is probably set too high. Thinking about violence is not everyone's cup of tea. Again, I do not consider ignoring the whole business to be necessarily irrational (depending on where one lives, one's degree of responsibility for the security of others, etc.) It is irrational, however, to imagine that such insouciance can pass for an informed opinion on how best to respond to violence in the event that it occurs. I have now heard from many people who have never held a gun in their lives, and are proud to say that they never would, but who appear entirely confident in declaiming upon the limitations of firearms as defensive weapons. Before proceeding, perhaps there is general rule of cognition we might all agree on: It would be surprising, indeed, if avoiding a topic as a matter of principle were the best way to understand it.
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Only worth it on Friday nights! – Friday nights are a cover of $10. You get all you can eat wings/pizza/chips & salsa....and, Domestic drafts. WELL, the beer comes at a fast pace...your glass is full every chance your waitress gets. BUT, the food is a joke. It is good bar buffett food....BUT...good luck getting some! They have horrible service at the food table, NOT IMPRESSED!
All you can drink for $10?! – Went here on a Friday night and 3 old college buddies and I took full advantage of the $10 all you can drink from 6-9. We got there at 5:00 and got a great table and enjoyed the scenery. Our waitress was beautiful and we couldn't finish a beer before she was coming around again to fill up our beers. Beautiful women here and definitely a happening place on Friday night. I thought we would be drinking Old Style or Milwaukee's Best for $10, but we were drinking Miller Lite the whole night. Great time
Multiple big screens make this a hot spot to watch the big game. – The Scene
Seven large-screen televisions and countless monitors fill the large room nicely, so there isn't a bad seat in the house. With multiple satellite and cable hookups, it's not unusual for several games to be showing simultaneously, so the roar coming from fans at one end of the bar won't necessarily correspond to the time-out happening on your screen. On nights when the DJ spins, Limp Bizkit and Guns N' Roses up the testosterone level, but the crowd is generally genial and the service friendly no matter how packed it gets.
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Basic bar fare will keep you as even-keeled as possible for the duration of the big game; the selection of brews on tap (16 including Harp, Guinness, Newcastle, Caffrey's and Summit Hefe Weizen) will satisfy just about every beer-drinker's taste. Domestic brands are on special daily.
Killer Thurs – Some real hotties out here for dollar beers and no techno music!!! gets crowded so grab your beers 3 at a time
football everywhere – best football joint on the northside. they got tvs everwhere and like 7 or 8 giant screens. i had a great time watchin the favre and company on half a dozen screens. the only bad thing is they shut the curtains so everyone can see the tvs so it feels like its night at 1pm, but hey, its football where talkin here!
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John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of three novels, The Thief of Time, The Congress of Rough Riders and Crippen (nominated for the Sunday Independent / Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award), and a children's book, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (shortlisted for the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize). His work has been translated into 10 languages. He lives with his partner in Dublin.
Find out more about the author and his books at www.johnboyne.com.
Writing Next of Kin by John Boyne
I have always had a great interest in historical fiction and, five novels into my writing career, I feel that I have become a historical novelist more by default than design. Each of my books so far has been set in a different period of history and I have chosen the stories based on times and places that I have always been fascinated by – for one thing, it makes the research a little easier. My first novel, The Thief of Time, skipped between various times and places from the mid 18th century to the last night of the 20th; my second, The Congress of Rough Riders, featured a fictionalised Buffalo Bill Cody as he created his great cowboy stage shows of the 19th century. For Crippen, which was published by Penguin in 2004, I revisited 1910, the year that Dr Hawley Crippen fled London for Canada while being pursued by Scotland Yard's Inspector Dew. And in my fourth novel, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, a young boy called Bruno is taken away from his home in 1942 to a terrible place during one of the worst times in human history, the Holocaust.
I began Next of Kin shortly after finishing a first draft of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and knew that I wanted to write another book in a historical setting, albeit with less emotive material than that novel. And so I chose 1936, and more specifically the six months leading up to the abdication of King Edward VIII just before Christmas of that year, a period of British history which has always fascinated me and about which I believed there remained a lot of mystery and intrigue. (The advantage to writing any novel set around political intrigues is that so much detail of the time is cloaked in secrecy anyway, so the novelist can create a 'supposition' which can have as much validity as any other theory.)
The one thing I knew when I began to create the story was that unlike my second and third novels, where real life historical figures featured prominently in the story, I didn't want either Edward or Mrs Simpson to be at the centre of the novel, but rather to float above it, their presence always felt but rarely seen. (Indeed, like Adolf Hitler, whose actions are at the very heart of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas but who appears in only one brief scene, the king and his mistress make only a fleeting appearance in the novel, a cameo of sorts, but one that is crucial to the development of the story.)
I chose a young man of aristocratic background to be at the centre of Next of Kin, a feature typical to many of the novels at the time. Owen Montignac, a charismatic and highly intelligent scion of a wealthy family, is in the unfortunate position of being considered wealthy by others when he barely has a penny to his name. Unfortunately for him, as it turns out, as the novel begins with Owen seriously in debt to a casino owner who wants to be paid off and quickly.
Readers of this novel will recognise the debt that I owe to Patricia Highsmith in the creation of Owen Montignac. I have always been an avid fan of Highsmith's fiction, particularly the five Tom Ripley books, and admire the manner by which she consistently created flawed, damaged characters, capable of both extraordinary moments of cruelty and unexpected bursts of humanity. For me, Ripley is one of the most well-rounded characters in fiction and I hoped to create such a dichotomy of characteristics in Owen Montignac. However I also read widely many of the novels of the time, particularly those which featured aristocratic anti-heroes as I hoped to create a sort of modern pastiche of those novels on the surface while bringing contemporary sensibilities and themes to play in the subtexts and undercurrents which pervade the story.
Researching times and places for my novels is one of the most enjoyable aspects of being a writer and I read widely about the 1930s, particularly about the role the monarchy played in the lives of British people during this time. One of the things that surprised me the most was the fact that the vast majority of people supported Edward VIII's relationship and would not have objected to the idea of an American divorcee on the throne beside him. Indeed, thousands of letters from ordinary people arrived at the Palace and at Downing Street in support of their king and his decision finally to abdicate (brought on more by a disapproving Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, than the feeling of the populous) was seen as a calamity by the people of the land. But Baldwin's objections ruled the day, to the extent that he influenced other political party leaders and elders (including Winston Churchill) to agree not to form a new government should the king refuse his demands and he be forced to resign. Such an eventuality would, of course, have led to a constitutional crisis of unprecedented terms. And history would have followed a very different course had the king and his mistress married and reigned as king and queen. However it is the conjecture of what was taking place behind the scenes during that tumultuous year that is at the heart of Next of Kin.
While writing the book I found myself more and more drawn to Owen Montignac's character and, despite his actions, liking him. I don't think it's unusual for a novelist to feel greater affection for his 'bad' characters than his 'good' – often they are the most colourful ones, after all – but it did leave me with the dilemma of how to finish the book, with the triumph of evil over good or the restoration of the natural order. For the answer to that question, you'll have to read the book.
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Interest in Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen seems to have reached an all time high, with a documentary about him on television, and articles about his trial in the broadsheets – was it a miscarriage of justice? Should it have been considered a mistrial? Crippen, through fiction, paints a fascinating and insightful picture of a man who has been vilified for almost a century as one of our most notorious killers. In our interview John Boyne answers some of our questions about the man and the novel.
The story of Dr Crippen seems to be one, which has been neglected over the years. What drew you to it initially?
I wasn't deliberately looking for a subject for a new novel, but happened to come across the story of how Crippen disguised his mistress, Ethel, as a boy and travelled with her as father and son in order to evade the authorities. The image of that – and of the lengths that they would have to go to in order to maintain their fraud – struck me as wonderful subject matter for a novel, both dramatic and comic, and I immediately knew that I wanted to write about it. Then the more research I did into the life of Dr Crippen himself, and the more his character began to form in my mind, the greater were my ambitions for the book. He seemed to be a much more ambiguous and conflicted character than I had previously imagined. Also, the idea of writing a slightly 'gothic' crime novel was very appealing. Stories of Jack The Ripper, for example, seem to have been done over and over but Dr Crippen was a story that I felt I could bring a very fresh perspective to. And it's a lot of fun having people walk down foggy pea-soup London in 1910, with bottles of poison tucked in their pockets of their topcoats!
How much freedom do you feel an author of a historical crime novel has?
I think that with any story based around real life events one has a certain responsibility to the truth. But in a story such as this, where no one really knows what took place between Dr Crippen and his wife, or of the events that took place on that fateful evening at Hilldrop Crescent, it's interesting to play with the evidence and suggest alternatives. After all, both Crippen and Ethel always maintained their innocence in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It's interesting that much of what might seem like coincidence here – the fact that they happened to travel on the very first boat with a telegraph machine, for example, which resulted in their capture – is actually based on the facts of the case. Anyway, part of the fun of being a novelist is that one can take events which are in the public domain and put a fresh, speculative spin on them, bringing details forth to the public that they might not have known before and encouraging debate. Look at The DaVinci Code for example. The line between truth and fiction in a novel can be quite a fluid one, but at the end of the day the classification at the back of the book says quite clearly that it's "fiction".
Some of the events in the novel seem quite astonishing in terms of modern police techniques. How much of it is actually based on fact?
The circumstances of Dr Crippen's various jobs are true; his early marriage is rarely remembered but is a matter of record, although there's never been any suggestion that he had a hand in her death! The chase aboard the Montrose and Captain Kendall's telegraph to Scotland Yard is all true and Inspector Dew's capture of the couple is also presented pretty much as it happened. Indeed, towards the end of the novel when Dew arrests Crippen, the dialogue comes directly from his own recollections which were submitted in evidence during Crippen's subsequent trial. However, the secondary characters in the novel are all made up and of course the personalities of Dr Crippen, his wife Cora, his mistress Ethel and Inspector Dew are all entirely imagined by me.
Do you feel that Crippen is a change of pace after your first two novels?
Not really. My first novel The Thief of Time was semi-historical and semi-contemporary, something I always thought of as an adventure story, while my second, The Congress of Rough Riders, does for Buffalo Bill and the Wild West what Crippen does for the good doctor and Edwardian London. However, of the three books I think this was the most fun to write. Once I got caught up in the action and began to structure the story around the chase from Antwerp to Canada, it became a very exciting novel for me to work on. And, of course, bringing back the character of Matthieu Zéla from The Thief of Time and installing him as a passenger on board Crippen's escape ship was great fun.
There seems to be a deliberate emphasis on gender issues in the novel? Was this intentional?
Definitely, I would go so far as to say it my most important concern in tackling the book. I mentioned earlier that it was the fact of Crippen and Ethel's disguises that drew me to the subject and through that I wanted to explore how a pair of lovers would behave around each other if they were dressed and behaving as father and son. Whether this would prove a distraction to their relationship… whether it would enhance it in some curious way. And from this I began to play with the genders of many of the other characters, most notably those on board ship. The fact that Ethel turns out to be quite a striking boy catches the eye of a young passenger called Victoria who pursues her/him relentlessly. But is she attracted to who Ethel is as a boy or who Ethel is herself? Even the relationship between Dr Crippen and Inspector Dew is an ambiguous one and it does appear that despite the fact that Dew set out to capture him, there was a surprising level of affection between the two; when I read what Dew said on capturing Crippen, it was hard not to feel that he felt a certain regret.
Who are the authors who have particularly influenced you in your writing?
There have been so many over the years because I don't think I've had a book out of my hands since I was about four years old. But if I had to pin it down I'd say that reading Dickens when I was a kid affected me enormously – I'm always stretching toward the epic 19th century novel even if I am writing a century and a half later. Every few years I still go back to David Copperfield. Also the American writer John Irving was the first contemporary author who I fell for, whose story-telling ability I'm still in awe of. I've lost track of the number of times I've read his books. A few others off the top of my head would include Patricia Highsmith, Tobias Wolff and of course Philip Roth. But I read widely and frequently and need to stop spending so much money on books!
And finally, your writing seems to have concentrated on history so far. Is this deliberate or is there a contemporary novel on the horizon?
Well Crippen is actually the first completely historical book I've written as half sections of both my earlier novels were set in the present day. However I've moved from the late 18th century, to the late 19th century, and now to 1910 with this novel, and I'm currently working on a new novel set in 1936 so I suppose I'm getting closer. I'm not a big fan of contemporary novels that just namedrop trends, logos or celebrity names. To me that gives a book a shelf life of about 2 weeks. But I think after the next one I'll have to set myself the challenge of writing something set in the present day and just sticking to what I suppose fiction writers are supposed to do – making it all up as I go along.
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